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Visual Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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Manuscripts
An autograph volume of unpublished classroom lectures of the obstetrician Antoine Petit. The volume contains lists of titles, indexes, and sections on the health and anatomy of women; common issues related to pregnancy; pre and post-natal care for women and babies; common illnesses in newborn babies; abortion; and medical recipes. The volume also includes a section on the famous Scottish obstetrician William Smellie. The volume is bound in full contemporary calf with gilt florets and remains of title-label on spine; covers are loose with some damage and a quantity of blank leaves was removed at the end of the volume. There is a contemporary ownership inscription of "Joannes Mathaeus Garot, Parmacopole (?)" on the inside front cover, with some indications that the book passed through the hands of several different students.
mssHM 84130